Google CRUSHES Everyone + Elon's $10B Anime Crisis + The Age of Agents

Built 2 Scale

This week on Built 2 Scale, we deliver our most packed episode ever with rapid-fire coverage of Google's dominant month, Warren Buffett joining our audience, and our first-ever Top 5 Most Influential People in AI draft picks. Plus: why 95% of corporate AI spending shows zero ROI and Elon's latest anime obsession crisis.

Built 2 Scale | Episode 22

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Just-in-Time Software Goes Too Far (Contraction App Meme)

1:13 Hinge Dating App as Tech Founder Distribution Strategy

4:57 Elon's Anime Crisis + $10B Tesla Market Cap Drop

7:09 Marriage Prenups Need Vesting Schedules Like Equity

8:34 Reid Hoffman: "10,000 Prompts is the New 10,000 Hours"

10:11 Prompt Guilt: The New Productivity Anxiety

12:01 UniTree Dog Robot Carries 215kg (Pub Crawl Dreams)

14:05 Domain Addiction AA Meeting on Twitter/X

16:16 Sam Altman: "GPT-5 Was a Misfire, GPT-6 Will Win"

18:45 Yann LeCun Day 25: "Don't Work on LLMs"

21:17 DeepSeek Confirmed as Chinese State Operation

25:05 Elon's Edge Computing Vision: No More Operating Systems

30:01 Mark Cuban's Gen Z AI Implementation Opportunity

34:14 Google's Best Month Ever: Translation, Video, Market Cap

44:29 Meta Acquires Midjourney Talent for Image Generation

46:23 Digital Twins & Avatar Content: The HeyGen Revolution

49:25 Claude Browser Agent for Power Users Only

54:08 Thanks for Watching: Brian Chesky, Satya Nadella, Warren Buffett

1:01:20 Tool of the Week: Community Feedback from Listeners

1:03:36 The Age of Agents: Aaron Levie's Vertical AI Framework

1:09:20 Robot Rundown: Waymo vs Tesla LIDAR Battle

1:16:40 Nvidia's $3,500 Robot Brain Developer Kit

1:18:11 Top 5 Most Influential People in AI (Draft Picks)

This Episode Covers:

- Google's market dominance across Pixel phones, instant translation, and video generation at 10% of OpenAI's cost

- DeepSeek revealed as Chinese government operation with state backing implications

- MIT study showing 95% of corporate AI spending has no ROI

- Meta's Mid Journey acquisition strategy to compete in image generation

- Claude's browser agent launch exclusively for power users

- Elon vs Waymo CEO debate over LIDAR necessity in autonomous vehicles

- Aaron Levie's framework: "Every workflow is a vertical AI company waiting to be built"

- Carbon Robotics deploys autonomous laser weeding systems

- Digital twin revolution with HeyGen's avatar technology

KEY INSIGHTS:

- Why most big companies are failing at AI implementation despite massive spending

- The opportunity for Gen Z to become AI consultants for backward industries

- Google's systematic ecosystem integration creating unmatched competitive moats

- Agent workflow optimization vs building agents for existing workflows

- Chinese government's strategic AI investment model vs American free market approach

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Weekly analysis of artificial intelligence business strategy, robotics adoption, and technology market dynamics. Hosted by Scott Wilcox (Australia) and Matt Perrott (Austin), providing actionable insights for founders, investors, and technology executives navigating the AI transformation.

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